[KC_Lion]

Thank you for posting this.

I almost forgot this is the 40th Anniversary.

Gordon Lightfoot's song is also my Favorite song of all time.

I wonder if they will be commemorating this on The Great Lakes Today?

This Excellent Version has Captain Cooper's and The News reports sound bites scattered through out the song.

I highly recommend a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw

[gov_bean_ counter]

BFL.

[thackney]

As bells tolled 11 times inside the Mariners’ Church in downtown Detroit, family members of some of the victims of the Nov. 10, 1975, wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald mourned but recalled happier times for their loved ones.

Sisters Elaine Riippa Sespico and Lonnie Turner journeyed from Ashtabula, Ohio, to Detroit to join more than 250 in the church at the foot of the Detroit River to remember their 22-year-old brother, Paul Michael Riippa, during the annual Great Lakes memorial service for the ill-fated freighter.

The service was broadened to remember victims from all disasters and tragedies on the Great Lakes.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/edmund-fitzgerald/2015/11/08/families-edmund-fitzgerald-victims-remember/75424414/

[bigbob]

I actually went there to listen to that piece, which is excellent, only to find the actual tape recording of the radio traffic had been posted a few years ago. Cynically you have to wonder if nowadays the lawyers for the Dubai corporation who owns the shipping company would have been consulted.

There is an annual memorial service as I understand it.

[cripplecreek]

Also great audio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysWpqKy424o

[dmz]

Tony Rice covers the tune nicely on his record of Gordon Lightfoot covers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUfalY7d83o